Hello all!
I felt the need while sitting in a rehearsal for Secret Garden, to post a lil about an earlier project this summer, The Cemetery Club.
The Weathervane Playhouse in Newark, Ohio was excited to work again this year with talented fabric designer Amy Butler. Last year we worked with her fabrics to create the magical fairy costumes for "A Midsummer Night's Dream". It was a huge success! This year I asked Amy if she would be interested in helping out with the Cemetery Club set I designed.
When she said yes, the magic began. The First Project was to render the model of the set so the walls could be manufactured and painted.
Before: (here is a rendering of the model)
At weathervane we have about 24 hours to change over from one show to the other so its a piece together project that must fly.
I did quite a few projects, of which i will post a lil later. The panels on the walls were just built out of 1x4 and streched fabric across the back. A great cost affective alternative to hiring craftsmen and painters to add molding detailing to a room, also great for dorms and rentals, they hang like a picture on the wall.
Upcoming Projects:
-Oven Mittens (craft)
-Ironing board (before and after)
-Coffee table (before and After)
-Curtains (Craft)
-Lamps (before and after / craft)
First we will start with the couch.
So here is the couch I recovered. It took 11 hours to pattern and figure out. I had 12 yds of this fabric.
It was an old 70's dusty orange burlap covered single arm love seat. I recovered it, my first time on a sofa of this type, with Amy's August Field's Bright Buds, and a squiggly stripe from Daisy Chain as the contrast piping.
BEFORE!
After:
On Stage!!
The chair Pictured above on the Right of the photo was a chair which Amy already had and loaned the theatre.
I sewed the tab top curtains in the bay window, and used muslin & the curtain fabric as trim for the roll blinds. I used 1.5" washers for the pulls.
